Breaking the Testing Pyramid with Virtual Testing and Hybrid Simulation

Abstract

Virtual testing and hybrid simulation have become an important trend in airplane design and validation. The traditional Testing Pyramid (or Building Block) approaches that emphasis on uniaxial coupon test and full structure certification test are being challenged. Researchers are trying to use advanced testing and simulation methods to replace the Testing Pyramid approach.

Keywords

• virtual testing
• hybrid simulation
• reduced order model
• cross coupling
• ansys
• opensees
• openfresco